Hollie Mariniello
Hollie Mariniello
Drama Teacher
Hollie Mariniello joined the drama teaching team 2018, directing the second and third grade students in drama class and in their plays. She fell in love with the classical education model while experiencing Geneva through her two children, Ella ’26 and Bishop ’28, and in turn fell in love with the Geneva community.
Born in a small town in Florida, Hollie first caught the acting bug when she landed her first role as Little Red Riding Hood while in her church’s pre-K class. She later got her first agent in Tampa and spent her teen years doing every play she could in addition to various modeling jobs before heading west to Los Angeles. There, she quickly got her SAG card and worked for many years with Kazarian Spencer & Assoc., with a five-year stint in New York where she signed with Abrams Artists. This was the beginning of a fruitful career/education of on-camera work including many national commercials, TV shows, movies, and print work. She studied for many years under the tutelage of Howard Fine as well as Uta Hagen and owes a great deal to both these talented teachers.
Hollie misses many aspects of her career since her husband’s job brought them back to Florida in 2013, but she loves their new life with its many connections to the body of Christ here in Orlando and wouldn’t trade it for anything. Hollie’s favorite thing about acting is the fact that it is, in its essence, the study of human behavior. She loves to explore the endless complexities of the one creation God made in his very own image. She is very excited to share her passion and experience with the Lord’s precious little ones and use it in a way to ignite their imaginations while pointing them to Christ.
Hollie resides in Orlando with her husband, Tony, two children, Ella and Bishop, and a menagerie of animals … she dreams of having her own cow one day! She is a member of and loves her new Florida church-home at NorthPark Baptist in Baldwin Park.
